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The world's most beautiful churches

King's College Chapel, Cambridge Yes, it's the setting for those syrupy Christmas services. Yes, you might risk running into some Cambridge students. But King's College Chapel, began in 1446 by Henry VI, has the world's largest fan vault and medieval stained glass. The latter survived the Civil War, although according to one record, noted by the College today, the chapel was used as a parade ground for Cromwell's troops: "'nor was it any whit strange to find whole bands of soldiers training and exercising in the royal Chapel of King Henry the Sixth" (from Querela Cantabrigiens, a "remonstrance by way of apologie, for the banished members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge".) Read more: fascinating facts about Britain's churches and cathedrals